Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200 crash, Oct 14, 2004 (2 killed)
Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200 accident on October 14, 2004 near Jefferson City, Missouri, United States with 2 fatalities. Cause: The NTSB determined...
- Date: October 14, 2004
- Aircraft: Canadair RegionalJet CRJ-200
- Location: Jefferson City, Missouri, United States
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The NTSB determined the pilots' unprofessional behavior, deviation from standard procedures and poor airmanship led to an in-flight emergency they could not recover from, partly due to inadequate training. Contributing factors were an engine core lock condition and flight manuals that did not stress maintaining minimum airspeed.
A Pinnacle Airlines CRJ-200 operating as Northwest Airlink was repositioning empty from Little Rock to Minneapolis when both engines flamed out after a pilot-induced aerodynamic stall at night. The engines could not be restarted and the jet crashed into a residential area south of Jefferson City Memorial Airport. Both pilots were killed and no one on the ground was injured.